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This information is available free of charge in electronic, audio, Braille and large print versions, on request. For assistance in understanding or reading this document or specific information about this Agenda or on the “Public Participation” initiative please call the Committee Team on 01629 761133 or e-mail: [email protected] 19 August 2020 To: All Councillors As a Member of the Council, please treat this as your summons to attend a virtual meeting on Thursday, 27 August 2020 at 6.00pm via the Zoom application. (Joining details will be provided separately). Under Regulations made under the Coronavirus Act 2020, the meeting will be held virtually. As a member of the public you can view the virtual meeting via the District Council’s website at www.derbyshiredales.gov.uk or via our YouTube channel. Yours sincerely James McLaughlin Director of Corporate Services AGENDA 1. APOLOGIES Please advise the Committee Team on 01629 761133 or e-mail: [email protected] of any apologies for absence. 2. PUBLIC PARTICIPATION Public Participation, as provided for in the Constitution, is suspended temporarily and is replaced with an alternative mechanism for the public to bring matters to the Council’s attention. Members of the public will be able to comment on any agenda item or matters in the wider public interest and will be invited to submit their questions or comments in writing, before 12 noon on the working day prior to the meeting by: Webform: Make your submission here Email: [email protected] Post: Democratic Services, Derbyshire Dales District Council, Town Hall, Matlock DE4 3NN The Committee Team will assist any member of the public without access to electronic means by capturing their concerns over the telephone. Phone: 01629 761133 (working days only 9am – 5pm) Any such correspondence will be read out at the meeting. 1 Issued 19 August 2020 The public will not be admitted to the meeting through virtual means. All meeting proceedings open to the public will be streamed live on our YouTube channel when all non -exempt items are being considered. Recordings of the meeting will also be available after the event on the District Council’s website. 3. INTERESTS Members are required to declare the existence and nature of any interests they may have in subsequent agenda items in accordance with the District Council’s Code of Conduct. Those interests are matters that relate to money or that which can be valued in money, affecting the Member her/his partner, extended family and close friends. Interests that become apparent at a later stage in the proceedings may be declared at that time. 4. APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETINGS Council 15 July 2020 Council – Annual Council 22 July 2020 Council – Extraordinary Meeting 12 August 2020 5. LEADERS’ ANNOUNCEMENTS Announcements of the Leader of the Council: 6. CHAIRMAN’S ANNOUNCEMENTS Announcements of the Civic Chairman. 7. COMMITTEES To receive the non-exempt minutes of the Committees shown below: Committee Date Non Exempt Minutes to be Received Council 02 July 2020 Council 15 July 2020 Council – Annual Meeting 22 July 2020 Council – Extraordinary Meeting 12 August 2020 Planning Committee 21 July 2020 Licensing & Appeals Sub-Committee 03 August 2020 Licensing & Appeals Sub-Committee 10 & 17 August 2020 Planning Committee 11 August 2020 Community & Environment Committee 19 August 2020 Governance & Resources Committee 20 August 2020 MINUTE BOOK TO FOLLOW 9. QUESTIONS (RULE OF PROCEDURE 15) Questions, if any, from Members who have given notice. 2 Page Nos. 10. NON TRADITIONAL HOMES IMPROVEMENT SCHEME 05 - 09 To consider a report seeking approval for the inclusion of £1,000,000, within the Capital Programme for 2020/21, for improvements works to non-traditional homes in the Derbyshire Dales together with energy efficiency measures to Platform housing stock. The work would be funded be a combination of government grants, District Council funding and a contribution from Platform. 11. ASHBOURNE RECREATION GROUND PAVILION 10 - 42 To consider a report seeking approval for the terms for a lease of land and associated sports pitches, to Ashbourne Recreation Ground Sport & Community Partnership (ASCP). Also to seek approval for the provision of capital contributions to the scheme, comprising a new sports pavilion building and a programme of sports pitch improvements and to consider the early release of some of the capital funding as detailed in the report. 12. PROVISIONAL REVENUE AND CAPITAL OUTTURN 2019/20, 43 - 65 REVISED REVENUE BUDGET 2020/21, CAPITAL PROGRAMME AND MEDIUM TERM FINANCIAL PLAN To receive a report providing details of the provisional financial outturn for the District Council’s Revenue and Capital spending for the year ended 31st March 2020 and significant variations from the revised budget. Also to consider approval of the recommendations listed in the report for the updated Capital Programme for 2019/20 to 2023/24, revised revenue budget for 2020/21 and an updated Medium Term Financial Plan (MTFP) for 2020/21 to 2024/25. 13. COVID-19 COUNCIL TAX HARDSHIP FUND 2020/21 & REVIEW OF 66 - 71 POLICY ON DISCRETIONARY COUNCIL TAX DISCOUNTS To consider a report seeking approval to increase the award of Hardship Assistance to £200 (or the balance of the council tax bill if less than £200) where a household has been or is in receipt of Council Tax Support during 2020/21 and for changes as detailed in the report to the Council’s policy for Council Tax Discretionary Reliefs under Section 13A (1) (C) of the Local Government Finance Act 1992. Also to seek approval that delegated authority be given, under the Local Government Finance Act 1992 – Section 13A(1)(C), allowing the Director of Resources and the Benefits Manager to make ad hoc awards from the balance of the Council Tax Hardship Fund, supplementing the £200 initial award, for deserving households identified as having severe financial vulnerability. APPENDIX 1 TO FOLLOW 3 14. DERBYSHIRE DALES SECTION 106 MONITORING FEES 72 - 78 To consider a report informing of changes to legislation, that allows Local Authorities to recover their costs associated with monitoring the operation and implementation of Section 106 Obligations, seeking approval for the introduction and publication of a charging regime for monitoring the implementation of relevant Section 106 Obligations, with immediate effect, as detailed in the report. 15. BIODIVERSITY OF ROAD VERGES AND PUBLIC OPEN SPACE 79 - 86 To consider a report, outlining the potential, to increase the biodiversity of the road verges and public open spaces managed by Derbyshire Dales District Council, seeking approval for the creation of a Working Group to investigate and pursue this potential to increase biodiversity as detailed in the report. 16. COMMUNITY PAYBACK SCHEME 87 - 91 To consider a report seeking approval for the creation of a Derbyshire Dales District Council Community Payback Scheme and for a supplementary revenue budget of £6,000, for 2020/21, to be used to fund the scheme to improve areas within the District. Also seeking approval to trial a work placement, with Community Rehabilitation Company to work within our Clean & Green Team, for a 3 month period, with the option to extend this period if the Clean and Green Manager is satisfied with the placement scheme. 17. EXCLUSION OF PUBLIC AND PRESS At this point the Committee will consider excluding the public and press from the meeting for the remaining items of business for the reasons shown in italics. 18. COMMITTEES To receive the exempt minutes of the Committee shown below: (The following minutes are exempt because they contain information relating to individuals) Licensing & Appeals Sub-Committee 03 August 2020 Licensing & Appeals Sub-Committee 10 & 17 August 2020 19. SEALING OF DOCUMENTS To authorise that the Common Seal of the Council be affixed to those documents, if any, required completing transactions undertaken by Committees or by way of delegated authority to others, since the last meeting of the Council NOTE For further information about this Agenda or on “Public Participation” call 01629 761133 or e-mail: [email protected] 4 NOT CONFIDENTIAL – For public release Item No. 10 COUNCIL 27TH AUGUST 2020 Joint Report of the Director of Housing and Director of Regulatory Services NON TRADITIONAL HOMES IMPROVEMENT SCHEME PURPOSE OF REPORT This report sets out a proposal for a bid to the government’s recently announced Green Homes Grant: Local Authority Delivery (GHG: LAD). The funding package could reach £1,000,000 comprising government grant, council funding and further contributions from Platform Housing Group. The focus of the programme is a further round of improvement works to non-traditional homes in the Derbyshire Dales together with energy efficiency measures to Platform housing stock. RECOMMENDATION That Council be requested to approve the inclusion of £1,000,000 within the Capital Programme for 2020/21 for the improvements to homes as set out in the report. WARDS AFFECTED All STRATEGIC LINK Improving the energy efficiency of non-traditional homes can be an effective way of improving the wider environment, tackling poor housing conditions and supporting vulnerable people in their housing choices. Improving non-traditional homes delivers on the Council’s priorities of People, Place and Prosperity. It also supports a post covid19 economic stimulus package and delivers on the Housing Team’s Regeneration Strategy for Hurst Farm 1 SUMMARY 1.1 The Council recently funded a programme of external wall insulation improvements to 11 non-traditional homes on Hurst Farm. This work is a central feature of the Hurst Farm Regeneration Project and is one of many projects currently in progress. Across the Derbyshire Dales there remain 68 non-traditional homes, including Hurst Farm (33), Brookside, Ashbourne (24), Hognaston (6), Oker, Darley Dale (4) and Tansley (1).